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Seihoon Lee, a junior business major at Mason Korea, recently won second place at a university business plan competition called “Growth to Professional” run by EY Korea and JA Korea. After successfully pitching a business plan to EY consultants, his team placed second among ten teams, resulting in a hard-earned 600,000 KRW award.

This semester Mason professors Jihye Lim, located in Korea, and Jennifer Ashley, located in Fairfax, co-taught the Mason Korea's first cross-continental synchronous course, a section of GLOA 101 Introduction to Global Affairs.

BTS is the first K-pop act ever to be nominated for a Grammy. Despite much anticipation, BTS did not win a Grammy for its megahit single “Dynamite” at the 63rd Grammy Awards. Expressing disappointment at the results, cultural studies professor Lee Gyu-tag of George Mason University Korea said, “Their Grammy debut nomination itself was too late, as it should have come a year or two ago. The belated nomination had already proved how closed the Recording Academy was.”

Hea Su Lee graduated last summer with a bachelor’s in Global Affairs with a concentration in Global Governance and a minor in Journalism. She will soon be embarking to London to pursue her passions at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she was admitted to the highly ranked Media and Communications graduate program.

Saeyeon Kwon is a senior Global Affairs major with a minor in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. She is currently working as a public administration intern at the United Nations Project Office on Governance (UNPOG), a subsidiary office of the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) under the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).

President Gregory Washington addressed the shootings in Atlanta and racism that Asian American communities have been facing.

Even clouds have silver linings. Mason Korea faculty reflect on some of the positives of a year of mostly online instruction.